“I'll always love Mark” says Lauren, BUT she's ready to get naked with her new man!

Lauren's ready for action and she certainly looks like she is too... (Image: Closer Magazine)

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A man named Tom Pearce has undoubtedly got a big toothy grin on his tanned face over in Essex this morning. Not because he got lucky last night... although, maybe he did, but if he didn't he could tonight... or maybe tomorrow.

The point is, he's gonna get it.

That is unless the girl he's been taking on dates, secretly can't stand him and is just going out with him for the sake of the reality show – no, we can't imagine that would ever happen.

Viewers of ITV2's TOWIE will have witnessed a new romance blossoming (that's a bit romantic for Essex, perhaps sprouting is more apt) over the last couple of weeks. We are of course talking about Lauren Goodger and Tom Pearce (not Arg and Gemma – that makes us want to book a course of therapy already), who have had a couple of nights out together, resulting in some loud slurpy snogs that we really don't need to see that close up from our sofa.

Lauren and Tom hide from the cameras for the first time in their life (Image: MAGICMOMENTS)

Lauren of course used to go out with the punchably handsome man that is Mark Wright, for ages, like 10 years, and that kind of thing's not easy to get over as she's just confirmed.

“I'll love Mark for the rest of my life and I'll never forget sharing so much with him,” groan... oh no, wait, “but I'm moving on.” Phew.

She's willing to move on in more ways than annoying cinema goers with filmed, tonsil licking dates too.

Lauren heads to work (the TOWIE film set) wearing a conservative frock (ahem) (Image: BIG)

“Yeah, he stayed over till the early hours once,” she's just told Closer mag about Tom, “but my friends were there too. We kissed, but there's been nothing as in sex – not yet!”

Tom – that's basically what's known as being on 'a promise'.

“At the end of the day. I'm an adult and I'm finally ready to take the next step and sleep with someone new. I need to move on and there's nothing wrong with that.”

What? We couldn't find a picture of Mark with his clothes on... (Image: PA)

Mark has moved on too, to an equally questionable reality based flirtation with a fit volleyball player during filming for his reality show, Mark Wright's Hollywood Nights. Although it seems that was over before it even started (what we mean here is when the cameras stopped rolling).

And he's not been in contact with Lauren since.

“I'm surprised he hasn't been in touch in the last couple of weeks,” Lauren continued. “But, deep down, I'm sure he just wants me to be happy.”

Wishful thinking perhaps, but that's about as romantic as it it gets in the orange county of Essex.